Crossword Based on Dr Lisa Harvey-Smith's Lecture on the SKA

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Across
  1. 4. There were ______ countries taking part in the development of the SKA.
  2. 5. About 72 _________ of information is transferred each second from the telescope to the supercomputer of the SKA.
  3. 7. ________ fields exist everywhere in the universe.
  4. 9. The universe is rotating ______ than we think.
  5. 13. A word that means a group or cluster of things together.
  6. 14. Telescope dishes can be made of steel or ________.
  7. 15. It takes eight minutes for light from the ___ to reach the earth.
  8. 16. The SKA used to be one of the world's largest _____ telescopes.
Down
  1. 1. There could be a black ____ of these in the center of a galaxy.
  2. 2. The SKA is three _______ metres across.
  3. 3. Telescopes should be built in ______ places, away from excessive human interaction and possible other radio waves that could interfere with the reception.
  4. 6. The SKA collects radio waves from space and converts them to __________ waves.
  5. 8. _______ can bend and distort space, time, and light.
  6. 10. There are about 76 _______ stars in the universe.
  7. 11. The Law of _______ Momentum helps explain the fact that when something is sucked into a black hole, something else must be spewed out.
  8. 12. A type of star that is extremely dense and rotates at incredibly high speeds, sending out waves of radiation as they do.